Position in chronology
SAA 19 052. Work Allotments (CTN 5 p. 214 and p. 271)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (2) [......] is estimated (3) 2,[xxx,xxx] bricks, work allotment of [... yea]rs; 1,382,400 bricks, work allotment of four months. (7) In another year, they were glazing bricks like this. (9) Total 2,554,600 bricks, work allotment of two years, 40,000 bales of straw according to one litre of straw for one brick; four litres for the fastening of [...]. 6,260 bales of reeds; one bale is 7.5 royal cubits, 7,000 garden reeds; length [x] royal cubits, width [one] royal [c]ubit. (r 2) Total, commander-in-chief; cubit of Arpad.
Source: Luukko, M. 2012. The Correspondence of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud. SAA 19. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa19/P224427/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x]+⸢x x x x⸣ / [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ka-ṣip / ⸢02?⸣-[lim-x-me-x-lim-x]-⸢me⸣ SIG₄ ÉŠ.QAR / ⸢ša⸣ [x MU.AN].⸢NA⸣-MEŠ / 01 lim 01 lim ⸢03? me 82?⸣ lim 04 me / SIG₄ ÉŠ.QAR ša 04 ⸢ITI?-MEŠ⸣ / ina MU.AN.NA šá-ni-ti / ki-i an-⸢nim?⸣-ma i-šaḫ-ḫu-⸢ṭu⸣ / PAB 02 lim lim ⸢05?⸣ me 54 lim 06 me / SIG₄ ÉŠ.QAR ša 02 MU.AN.NA-MEŠ / 40 lim ma-qar-rat ŠE.IN.NU / ⸢ina⸣ 01 qa ŠE.IN.NU ša 01 SIG₄ / 04 qa…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P224427.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Mikko Luukko, The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud (State Archives of Assyria, 19), 2012. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P224427/..
Translation excerpted from Luukko, M. 2012. The Correspondence of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud. SAA 19. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa19/P224427/.
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